What is the sickness that leads inhabitants to sleep for days?

The first epicenter is coming back to life, but not as anyone knew it.

A report from the KKK’s 2012 Faith and Freedom conference in Arkansas:

It's quite disconcerting in this modern age to be in a room full of white people who are all spouting the most vile racist slurs that one can imagine, openly, while everyone else laughs and applauds it. There is a Twilight Zone feeling to it, as if you'd stumbled into a secret clubhouse where white people can say those forbidden things—the Valhalla of dumb racist jokes.

Buddy Cianci, former Providence mayor and convicted felon, is running for the city’s top office. Again.

The poet died when he was hit by a car in 1965. Everything else about his demise is a mystery.

On returning to Britain, which is no longer home.

They’re floppy, relaxed, and they come when you call them. Is the Ragdoll a genetic miracle, or just one very cool cat?

Why is life in this country so hostile to single people?

The lonely death of a godfather of the conspiracy theory movement.

The beginnings of the best-selling video game, from a chapter of David Kushner’s new book on the subject.

The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ‘59.

How the truth still eludes the investigation of the killing of four boys in Joypur, which sparked a bloody riot and massive displacement.

At work with the scientists standing on the precipice of a grand unified theory of the universe. Or failure.

The rise of an amazing optical corporation and the future of our eyes.

Heather Morris’s bestselling novels ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and ‘Cilka’s Journey’, and the problem of truth in historical fiction.

One famous critic (Adler) takes another (Pauline Kael) to task for a collection of reviews that is “without Kael- or Simon-like exaggeration, not simply, jarringly, piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless.”

On the history of content moderation and what it means for the future of free speech.

The strange existence of the accused Internet pirate as he battles the U.S. government.

On vandwelling in the wake of the Great Recession.

The unlikely ascent of A.Q. Khan, the scientist who gave Pakistan the Bomb, and his suspicious fall from grace.

The profile of a crime syndicate which dominates the European cocaine trade.

The lives of the Indians who were swallowed in the Bhopal gas cloud, thirty years later.

“Peril is generational for black people in America—and incarceration is our current mechanism for ensuring that the peril continues.”

What does satire do? What should we expect of it? Is it crucial to Western culture that we be free to produce it?

She calls claiming to be Amy Pascal, Kathleen Kennedy, or some other powerful woman in entertainment. She knows personal details about her mark as well as the woman she is impersonating.

She offers work, then sends them—photographers, make-up artists, soldiers—around the world to bilk them out of modest amounts of cash.